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That sting of self-disapprobation when you confront your jerkitude is a moral treasure, because that very sting is what makes it less so.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2020

He knows what conduct of his will be approved of by others, and what condemned, according to the standard he himself employs upon others; his concurrence in this approbation or disapprobation is self-approbation or self-disapprobation.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

The moral feeling of self-approbation or self-disapprobation cannot even be conceived apart from the pleasures or pains which are attendant on it, and by means of which it reveals itself to us.

From Progressive Morality An Essay in Ethics by Fowler, Thomas

In any intelligible or tenable sense of the term, conscience stands simply for the aggregate of our moral opinions reinforced by the moral sanction of self-approbation or self-disapprobation.

From Progressive Morality An Essay in Ethics by Fowler, Thomas